ISLAMABAD, Jan 13: At least 45 Pakistanis were among hundreds of Muslims who were crushed to death in a stampede at the Haj pilgrimage in the Saudi Arabian city of Mina, a minister said on Friday.
“It is a very tragic incident and we have identified that 36 bodies are from Pakistan,” Pakistan’s religious affairs minister Ejazul Haq told AFP by telephone from Saudi Arabia. “Their bodies were badly crushed.”
